News film clips featuring meeting between Alderwoman Vel Phillips and Police Chief Harold Breier. The first clip shows the Phillips and Breier sparring about the police department taking photographs of people in the audience at common council...

News film clips featuring Vel Phillips' speaking at a common council meeting. In the first clip she laments that the city attorney has weighed in against the council taking action on the proposed ordinance and wonders when council members began to...

Footage of Catholic Archbishop William E. Cousins defending Father James E. Groppi. He supports the causes for which Groppi fights and assures viewers that the issues he fights for would not go away even if Groppi did.

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News film clips of Supervisor Nowakowski giving his opinions of white riots and Father Groppi. In the first clip he condemns the mob insanity that has taken hold of white teenagers on the South Side, and wonders how parents can allow their children...

News film clips featuring scenes in Milwaukee following the July 30th civil disturbance in the Inner Core. The first clip shows a National Guard patrol and destroyed cars and buildings. The second clip presents some aerial views of damaged, and...

News flip clips showing scenes from a Milwaukee United School Integration Committee and Congress of Racial Equality demonstration against the construction of MacDowell School on December 8 1965. The slips show a man being arrested, demonstrators...

Clips of Father Groppi, Prentice McKinney, and the Youth Council speaking to reporters at the burned out Freedom House. During the interview, Father Groppi claims that the police started the fire and affirms the rights of the activists to...

News film clips of Father Groppi, with the Youth Council in attendance, speaking at the Unitarian Church West, September 20, 1967. In the clips Groppi shares his perspective on the struggle for open housing legislation in Milwaukee, his life...

Partial clips of interviews with Mayor Henry Maier concerning the civil disturbances of July 30-31 1967. In the first clip Maier gives an official statement about the disturbances. In the second clip Maier takes questions from the media, discussing...

Footage of Senator Fred Harris and NAACP Executive Director Roy Wilkens, members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (also known as the Kerner Commission) who say that issues prevalent in Milwaukee are the same as those elsewhere...

News clips documenting Martin Luther King Jr.’s visit to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on November 23, 1965. Footage includes King speaking to crowds and discussing Milwaukee civil rights and social needs during a press conference.

Footage of Mayor Henry Maier's press conference announcing the new Commission on Community Relations. In his statement Maier acknowledges the problem of racial prejudice in Milwaukee and expresses concern regarding the violence in the streets and...

Footage of Mayor Henry Maier speaking at a press conference. A group of black and white members of the clergy recently met and pledged to try to relieve racial tension in Milwaukee. He mentions that the group will meet again to consider the...

News film clips of Mayor Meier (Milwaukee) and Mayor Klentz (West Allis) discuss the merits of metropolitan government in Milwaukee County. In the first clip Maier opines that metropolitan government would cure many urban problems. Klentz disagrees...

Footage of a Milwaukee Common Council meeting where Alderwoman Vel Phillips resubmits her open housing legislation. Alderman Robert Dwyer speaks about the threat of violence. Father Groppi and Commandos are seen in the audience.

News film clips of a press conference with Milwaukee County Supervisor Richard Nowakowski, August 30, 1967. Nowakowski takes questions from the media, discussing the marches, the counter-demonstrations, and Father Groppi.

Footage of a Milwaukee Fire Department official whose findings suggest that the Freedom House fire was started by a flammable liquid. It was not likely that it was started by a tear gas cartridge, as was suggested by Fr. Groppi and the Commandos.

Footage of Milwaukee high school students speaking about the need for African-American curriculum and textbooks in Milwaukee Public Schools. The second clip features a response from an unidentified man, who says the authorities have an obligation...

Clips featuring silent footage of members of Milwaukee United School Integration Committee (MUSIC) protesting busing and de facto segregation on June 3-4 1965. The location is most likely Keefe Avenue Elementary School. Clergy, including Father...